Kosovo higher for four positions in Press Freedom Index

Kosovo has been set up for 4 countries in the index of “Borderless Reporters”, of freedom of expression, KTV reports.

From 82nd in 2017, it is now in 78th place. However, the organisation “Reporters without Borders” that compiles this index annually confirms that the media in Kosovo suffer from direct and indirect political interference, financial pressure and concentrated ownership.

According to the report, journalists, who criticise Kosovo authorities, are often accused of being betrayers or sympathies of Serbia.

A few days after his government was sworn in, in 2017, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj described reporters as illiterate and advised them to return to school.

Two investigative journalists were physically assaulted after criticising members of the Government and their associates in their writings, mentioned in the report.

Ethnic divisions in Kosovo are extremely evident in the media, writes away, until members of the majority Albanians rarely cooperate with their Serbian colleagues, critics, who were repeatedly mentioned in several reports of this organisation.

However, the current government seems more willing to talk to journalists and media in general, compared to the past two governments, which were much more closed to dialogue.

However, press journalism and freedom are at stake in the world. According to the organisation, 63 journalists were killed this year in the world. Thirteen amateur journalists, too, have been killed, while 165 journalists have been imprisoned, wrote in the report.

Norway continues to remain the freest state for its journalism profession until North Korea is the last.